located, and two of them reproduce
Continuing Q8 rather than opening anything new. The gap that mattered was
the confirm cue: a menu needs a sound on A, and I had only cursor and
cancel.
The fix was where I was counting from. The first run started counting
streams at the main menu, so the confirm cue had already fired during
boot and showed up as "played before any input". Counting from the TITLE
instead attributes it cleanly: the A that advances title -> main menu
fires the 12288-byte wave at 0x5d6c0, together with the two stereo BGM
stems, which is the menu's music starting.
So move (0x1ec0, 0.533 s), confirm (0x5d6c0, 1.016 s) and back (0x0ec0,
0.344 s) are all located and decodable. Move and back came back with
IDENTICAL head bytes and sizes on a second independent boot, so the
dedup-keyed method is stable and those two are now n=2 rather than n=1.
Two honest limits recorded rather than smoothed over. The A press both
confirms and opens a screen, so its wave could be the cue the vocabulary
calls DECIDE or the one it calls SUB_WIN_OPN -- the port gets the sound
the game plays, not a name. And left/right fired no new stream, which
excludes a DISTINCT invalid cue but cannot exclude them quietly replaying
one of the three already heard, because the probe dedups on head bytes.
Finishing the step I left open last iteration rather than starting
something new. Offsets and packet counts were in hand; what was missing
was proof they are actually waves.
slb_extract_wave.py wraps a (bank, offset, packets, channels, rate) slice
in a synthesized XMA1 RIFF, following the layout the Rust decoder already
uses. The three located cues decode to 0.533 s, 0.344 s and 1.016 s of
mono 48 kHz audio, audible from sample 0, each with the percussive
attack-and-decay envelope of a UI blip. Bitrates come out at 12-15 kB/s,
about half the stereo BGM rate, which is what mono should be.
The control matters more than the results. The SAME wrapper applied to
BGM_001's first wave decodes to 173.808875 s -- identical to the duration
that bank's own on-disc RIFF header produced back when Q10 was answered.
So the header I synthesized is not approximately right, it reproduces a
known-good decode exactly, and the cue durations are trustworthy for the
same reason.
I did not commit the decoded audio. Three commands regenerate it from the
disc, and the corpus's job is measurements and tooling rather than
extracted game assets. The offsets, the packet counts and the tool are
the deliverable.
extracted", and the tool was in the build all along
Two iterations ago I closed Q8 by declaring the SE audio undecodable:
Static.slb has no wave boundaries, there is no XACT container anywhere,
and I said the index "exists only at runtime" as though that put it out
of reach. The disc half of that stands. The conclusion did not.
This build of Canary carries a cvar called xma_param_probe, added by this
project, whose own comment says it logs each XMA stream's parameters and
head bytes so raw sound.pak entries can be matched to real decode params.
It has been sitting in the startup CONFIG DUMP of every log I have read
this session.
Run with it, driving the main menu: a d-pad move spawns a new mono 48 kHz
stream of 4 packets / 8192 bytes, and B spawns a different one of 2
packets / 4096 bytes. Searching their logged head bytes in Static.slb
finds each at exactly one offset -- 0x1ec0 and 0x0ec0 -- and the two are
contiguous, 0x0ec0 + 4096 = 0x1ec0. So the bank is a packed run of whole
2048-byte packets with no delimiters, which is precisely why the seek
scan found nothing: there is nothing to find. A wave is (offset, packet
count) and nothing else.
That splits Q8's binding cleanly. Event -> WAVE is now measured: the port
can have the audio. Event -> cue NAME is still a name match on the
authors' identifiers, and the page says so.
The same run settled something for Q10 too. Sitting on the main menu, TWO
stereo 48 kHz streams were decoding simultaneously. bgm-two-stems.md said
that observation was what it needed and that this container could not
make it; it can, and a music bank's two waves are now measured as
simultaneous rather than only inferred.
METHOD gets the general lesson, because it cost two iterations: check
what instrumentation the local build already has before declaring a
question blocked on tooling.
